Let Us Shape the Future, 27 Nov 1965
Related Topic: Vietnam War
Speech to Students for a Democratic Society on march on Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnam War
"The original commitment in Vietnam was made by President Truman ... seconded by President Eisenhower ... intensified by the late President Kennedy ... the men who now engineer that war — those who study the maps, give the commands, push the buttons, and tally the dead: Bundy, McNamara, Rusk, Lodge, Goldberg, the President himself."

The Secret State, 19 Dec 1991
Related Topic: United States
Speech to Libertarian Party of Massachusetts
"... be very worried about the growth since World War II of a national-security oligarchy, a secret and invisible state within the public state. ... A secret state has set itself up within the darkest corners of the American government. It is what Nixon adviser John Dean called a cancer on the presidency, but it has metastasized well beyond the White House."

Who Killed JFK? The Media Whitewash, Lies of Our Times, Sep 1991
Related Topic: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Oliver Stone's current film-in-progress, JFK, dealing with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, is still months from theaters, but already the project has been sharply attacked by journalists who ordinarily could not care less what Hollywood has to say about such great events as the Dealey Plaza shooting of November 22, 1963."